Ranking the 10 Best Stocks for 2013

Half of the picks are beating the broader market's gains

InvestorPlace.com launched its 10 Best Stocks for 2013 feature at the start of the year, again offering a list of buy-and-hold investments that, if held all year, would provide market-beating returns for individual investors.

It’s early in the contest, but so far, the competition’s stocks been chugging steadily along for the most part. More than half of the picks are beating the S&P 500’s 5% climb thus far, and all but two are at least slightly in the black.

Obviously there’s a lot of time left in 2013, and a lot of things can (and will) happen, but we’ll highlight the early winners so they have a chance to beat their chests.